Warner Bros. is offering some pay-per-view movies through Facebook starting today with "The Dark Knight," which is available now. Viewers will be able to spend credits to buy or rent flicks as more movies are offered on the social network over the coming months. Rentals cost 30 Facebook credits, which translates into $3. Buyers have full control over the movie for up to 48 hours while watching it through Facebook, including the ability to see it in full screen, pause it and resume playing after logging back in.

About Stanley A. Miller II

Stan Miller is a Milwaukee native. He started his career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shortly after graduating from Northwestern University in 1997 -- a professional journey that began on the night copy desk and transitioned over the years to covering personal technology, general assignment city news, real estate, business news and general features as well as technology. Despite those evolving roles, Stan has always held firm to his passion (and near-obsession) with technology and how it is changing our culture and society. Stan is also the defacto geek culture writer, with a keen interest in and appreciation of gaming, comics, fantasy art and science fiction. He has stood in many lines for midnight sales of the latest games and consumer electronics despite the fact he played with them months or years beforehand at trade shows like the Consumer Electronics Show and the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Stan is much more than a game-boy, however and is always evangelizing the good, the bad and the ugly of technology, whether that is through public speaking venues or teaching classes at local institutions of higher education. When he is not teching around, he is most likely either playing fetch with his dog, Sophie, or riding Wisconsin's beautiful trails on his roadbike.